Let’s be real: Family Guy hasn’t been funny in damn near a decade. And when you’re not funny, you run the risk of offending people. The latest Family Guy episode features a story of Peter Griffin starting a Neighborhood Watch program, gets a gun and eventually shoots his friend’s Black son in the middle of the night. The story parallels the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman story and it has huge racial overtones. Unfortunately, the episode didn’t handle the topic with any sort of intelligence or cleverness. Instead, it focused on Peter Griffin and how shooting a Black kid affected him.
In the end, Cleveland actually takes the damn blame for the shooting of his own son and it leads to nobody paying attention because “the media doesn’t care about Black-on-Black crime.” The insinuation here is that the media sensationalizes White-on-Black crime because it’s a catchy story, which is a cop-out and lets the White killers off the hook. And the idea of the Black man actually taking the blame for it and sacrificing himself for the White guy isn’t lost on us, either. Look, we know it’s Family Guy and “it’s not that serious” but they didn’t even try to make a good point or even present anything remotely comical or satirical. It was just another example of a dying, lame unfunny show grasping at straws. Usually when that happens, Black pain is the target. We would say “don’t watch Family Guy anymore” but let’s be real: we didn’t even realize this show was still on the air.
It takes 1 year to make an episode of Family Guy. 1 YEAR to reconsider having Cleveland apologise for race baiting + "black on black crime"
— whoopi facts (@vonoink) December 14, 2015
So Family Guy wasn't funny. This is not remarkable. https://t.co/BlnTakEyXW
— Lolotehe (@lolotehe) December 16, 2015
@DavidDTSS @deray family guy isn't funny. It's not satire, it's not wit It has screenshots that when taken out of context, can be clever
— •*Sharks // People*• (@petarinabug) December 16, 2015
I'm just gonna go ahead and say that Family Guy is not very funny anymore @SethMacFarlane what happened
— Dililah Marie Slover (@pieeater55) December 16, 2015
new Family Guy has an episode with Lois brutally beating Peter and the kids watching and it's….really not funny.
— Denim Dave (@DTenenbaum) December 16, 2015
#familyguy has definitely gone downhill the past few years. Not even funny anymore
— Wes Adams (@wesadams05) December 14, 2015
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Family guy not even that funny I sit there and watch that show like pic.twitter.com/SIo06J2ep7
— Quavo Big Poppa (@freshouttafucz) December 15, 2015
Yeah this Trayvon Martin episode of Family Guy isn't funny, at all.
— Jah-nae. (@_JhanaiDanielle) December 16, 2015
#FamilyGuy and this Trayvon Martin episode pic.twitter.com/NAGSB9dp0u
— (trā•mōn) (@50ShadesOf_Tra) December 14, 2015
So cool of Family Guy to do a George Zimmerman episode. It's only been 2 and half years. Kudos on the timeliness guys
— Nick Blaubach (@NickBlaubach) December 14, 2015
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